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Anne Waldman United States of America    PWF 2009

Anne Waldman_by Greg Fuchs

Poet and cultural activist Anne Waldman was born in 1945 in Millville, New Jersey. An inheritor of The Black Mountain, Beat and New York School of poetry — Waldman has helped create and nature poetry zones throughout the United States, directing the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery for over a decade and co-founding the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at the Buddhist-inspired Naropa University in 1974. Ginsberg called her — his “spiritual wife”.

A master of poetry and poetic performance, Waldman examines the prevalence of patriarchal dominance and the masculine spirit in Western culture. Her Fast Speaking Woman — a thirty page “list chant” inspired by Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina — is what Waldman calls “every woman’s song”. The work applauds female energy — and relies on the power of the spoken word.

An advocate for feminist, environmental and human rights issues, Waldman has published more than forty books of poetry, which include:  Helping the Dreamer, Marriage: A Sentence, In the Room of Never Grieve, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, Outrider, Red Noir, Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, and Manatee/Humanity.

“No event is isolated—no force is ever spent.”

Anne Waldman divides her time between New York and Boulder, Colorado.

 

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Anne Waldman: Rhizomic Poetics

11.12.2008 Interviews

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Anne Waldman: Musical Garden

10.12.2008 Readings

Can't give you up, speech, can't stop clamoringCan't give you up

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Waldman: Verses for the New Amazing Grace

10.12.2008 Readings

"The grace of all the bards who pen Their words do transport me

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Anne Waldman: Plurality

10.12.2008 Articles

Plurality as a Poetics: Begins with a series of questions.

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Anne Waldman: Gypsy Nun

10.12.2008 Readings

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